My muse is curled in a ball on the ground, screaming in pain and calling out for help. Your muse comes to the rescue.
Have you watched as the one you cared for died? It doesn’t even have to be at such a level. Have you watched as the one you loved departed? It hurts, doesn’t it? Imagine this longing and nostalgia piercing the heart over and over again. Imagine it multiply itself by impossible factors.
No one can contain the pain.
Smiles, laughter, blood and tears ebbed through his system. The more smiles he saw, the louder the screams became. He died in too many worlds. Yongguk was forced to relive the pain too many times.
Yongguk is alone. He’s curled up and screaming, begging to forget everything. The silence echoes his pain, emulating it to ghostly moans. He deserves to be alone, after the amount of times he forced a single life to face death. All he wanted to do was take care of everything, to solve all the problems. He went to ‘fix’ the problem over and over again. He refused to believe and accept this death.
After thousands of failures, Yongguk had tried to forget everything about this death. And now, all the images had returned. All the chocking horror had returned to steal him of his very last breath. He cried, punched and whimpered for it to lock itself back up.
He tried to laugh away the existence. At first. He tried to forget. At first. Of course, seeing his current pain, it hadn’t worked. And so he screamed. Screamed for it to just end. Not only was this tearing at his ghost, but it was breaking him on a physical level.
Yongguk could barely stand.
Curled into this pathetic ball, a weary piece of humanity, Yongguk is lost. And he deserves this — he knows. All he wants is for this to end. If an ending meant his death, then so be it. If an ending meant screaming till there was nothing left to scream, then so be it. If he were to live through these deaths instead of watching them pass, then let him die. At least then, he could be at rest.
Just as another smiles, so sweet and pure, flickers across his mind, his voice is back. His voice is back to its low, broken tone, crying for darkness.
He throws his fists onto the ground before they open to dig his nails into the carpet. It isn’t blank or pained expressions that push another nail into his heart — it is the smiles and joy that used to come before such expressions that did.
A voice break through the hoarse screams. It does not reach anything though. Alas, the screams continue, bringing a shudder towards the approaching figure.
Footsteps hasten as a figure approaches Yongguk. Without any question, the figure’s arms are wrapped around him, holding him tightly in hopes of warding off these memories.
“They’re all just memories. They’re all elsewhere — not here. You’re alive. He is alive. I’m alive. Everything —” Yongguk rises from his foetal position to clutch at the figures shirt. He couldn’t care for who it was. Humans can’t survive in loneliness.
Taemin doesn’t need questions, answers or tears to tell him what is wrong. He has seen enough of Yongguk, seen enough death himself, to understand this pain. Yongguk is only human.